$750 is immediate assistance. Then you apply for more assistance for home repair, etc. Good Lord you're too smart to repeat Trump dumb **** lies
You used to never see this happen. If the country had a natural disaster, whatever the cause, Americans worked together to provide help as best they could. No longer. Today's Republican Party is more interested in making "political hay" out of catastrophe. I'm watching it happen and still find it hard to believe.
@basso No we did see ONE president politicize disaster relief for areas not favorable to him. Trump https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/03/helene-trump-politics-natural-disaster-00182419
I'm going to say this again because we see it cropping up in the Hangout Hurricane thread. The amount of misleading and flat out misinformation along with political finger pointing aren't helping. With a massive disaster there are roles for local, state, and Federal government. NGO's, religious groups, and private individuals have roles to do to. The amount of distrust and though will make it hard to respond and recover from the disaster much harder. As we've seen with Helene the federal government was working with state government and Republican governors and local officials are working together both for recovery of that storm and preparation for Helene. Both Biden and DeSantis are in contact and their staff are working together.
And I have a feeling Milton will be the straw that breaks the camel's back in terms of needing help........the last thing we need is people being given bad information, millions will need additional help, and we haven't even started that hard work from the last hurricane. I wish someone in maga would stand up and tell everyone to STFU and lets help these people, politics be dammed.
Republican governors including ones who are supporting Trump have said they are working well with the federal government. So have many local Republican officials. Many though would rather believe randos on Twitter than that.
Katrina had +1300 deaths, was a pretty huge loss of life. And guess what…. FEMA is still underfunded. GOP states are pretty much welfare queens.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/ka...is-call-hurricane-helene-political-rcna174276 Ron DeSantis is refusing to take Harris' call on Hurricane Helene An aide to the Florida governor said that Harris' call "seemed political" and that she "was trying to reach out, and we didn’t answer." Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is not taking calls from Vice President Kamala Harris about storm recovery just over a week after Hurricane Helene hammered parts of his state. A source familiar with the situation said he was dodging the Democratic presidential nominee’s calls because they “seemed political,” according to a DeSantis aide. “Kamala was trying to reach out, and we didn’t answer,” the DeSantis aide told NBC News. DeSantis has been in direct contact with Federal Emergency Management Director Deanne Criswell. At a press conference Monday afternoon, DeSantis denied that he refused to take Harris' call. "I didn't know that she had called," he said. "I'm not sure who they called. They didn't call me. Their characterization of it was something that they did. It wasn't anything that anybody in my office did, in terms of saying it was political." Asked about NBC News' report Monday afternoon and whether politics was seeping into the hurricane response, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said, "That's really for the governor to speak to, right?" She said the White House invited DeSantis to survey the storm damage with President Joe Biden. "It was his decision ... to not attend or not be there with the president. ... It is up to him," she added. "We are doing our part, in the Biden-Harris administration, working — obviously FEMA is work — is on the ground, all hands on deck, whole of government. Robust approach here. And so, again, that's for Gov. DeSantis to speak to." ===== Rest at the Site ===== They always accuse others of doing EXACTLY what they are doing. How is this helpful? Rocket River
